Virtual Pharmacy APPEs ft. Jennifer Prisco | APPE Coordinator View
“We lost 80-90% of those APPE placements.”
Jennifer Prisco is a pharmacist and APPE Pharmacy Practice Coordinator. She is responsible for placing clinical students locally, statewide, and nationwide in pharmacy experiential rotations. In addition, she is developing an international pharmacy placement program. Every year, she coordinates roughly 4500 clinical placements across 3 university campuses.
Here, Dr. Prisco describes the large magnitude of displaced inpatient APPE rotations for her respective university. In Brian Fung’s interview with Dr. Prisco, they discuss pharmacy APPE rotations during this complicated time, the impact it has on students, recent ACPE policy changes, etc. Virtual pharmacy APPEs may play a part in assisting pharmacy students impacted during this time and for the upcoming rotation year.
Background: Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, many pharmacy APPEs were canceled in March 2020. This left many students in a situation in which they may not graduate due either lack of hours, licensure requirement, or etc. Given the ubiquitous adoption of stay at home orders, utilization of virtual platforms for Virtual pharmacy APPEs have become more commonplace.
Are you a Preceptor? Please add yourself to the pharmacy APPE rotations database here.
Are you a Student? For the list of available preceptors, please direct your APPE coordinators here.
April 27, 2020 @ 1:43 pm
I have been trying to add my information for the Virtual APPE’s but the database is not allowing me to add it. Excuse my ignorance, is this Access? I do have Access, I’d appreciate it any help with this. I am trying to volunteer and help students graduate in addition to provide them with some experience from our unique population
April 27, 2020 @ 1:51 pm
Hi Monica!
Apologies for the confusion. You are able to put your information on this Google Form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdv18Bej2fZBe1r4tHOsEZCQPxiDbIBx1hiCPOUClanaAkvyA/viewform.
From there, the form will automatically update the database. Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions at [email protected]! We really appreciate you helping out pharmacy students!